This time, the barbarian grain transport team that attacked Luochuan County had a great harvest, and the grain and grass obtained were enough for the people in the cottage to use for about three months. However, because it was the first operation, the two brigades combined lost more than a hundred people.

Of course, for a new recruit, such losses are actually not very large. After returning to the cottage, Mark first supplemented the personnel losses of the two brigades with those border people who took the initiative to join the team, and the remaining hundreds of people temporarily formed two squadrons and arranged for them to be trained separately.

These two new squadrons will be the seeds of the third brigade that Mark is preparing to form.

This attack gave Mark a taste of sweetness. Therefore, while he returned with the men and horses to escort the grain and grass, he also arranged the hidden guard scouts. It is impossible for the barbarians in Luochuan County not to eat or drink, and this time the grain and grass are lost, they will definitely have to arrange people to obtain new grain and grass.

In other words, as long as there are barbarians in Luochuan County, the matter of transporting grain and grass will not stop. So, if you can rob once, why can't you rob a second time. However, Mark will not rush into action without getting accurate information.

However, striking while the iron was hot, Mark had no intention of letting his men stop. Therefore, after only resting for two days, he left the cottage again with two large groups of men, this time the goal of the group was Longkazhai.

Longkou Village is also a place where mountain bandits gather, and it can be regarded as a top-ranked mountain bandit force in Luochuan County. According to the information collected by the hidden guards, there are about 3,000 mountain bandits with combat effectiveness in Longkou Village, and more than 2,000 other old and weak women and children.

Longkou Zhai is a place where its own position is very critical, and it is stuck on the throat artery. Nearby, there are exactly two important grain-producing areas in Luochuan County, so Longkou Village has never lacked food. There are two masters in Longkou Village, the big boss is called Iron Fan Song Qing, and the second master is called Smiling Tiger Xu Liang.

Song Qing's martial arts value is not low, and he has the cultivation of a senior martial artist. Xu Liang's own force value is average, but this guy is very brainy, and he can be regarded as a Zhiduoxing in the cottage, but Xu Liang is not a good guy, he has a bad stomach and a lot of bad ideas.

Because Song Qing married Xu Liang's sister, Song Qing relied on this very smart brother-in-law, don't look at him Song Qing is the owner of the village, but many times it is Xu Liang who makes the decision.

There are two main sources of mountain bandits in Longkou Village. One is the real mountain bandits, the kind of mountain bandits who rob homes and houses and do all kinds of evil. There is also a kind of border people who are forced by the barbarians to live. Although these border people have joined Longkou Village, they still uphold their nature and generally do not easily rob their homes.

Therefore, Longkou Village is not united, and the cadres and others are faintly divided into two factions, and they do not like each other. It's just that, in the presence of foreign enemies, everyone still barely maintains a superficial peace.

Song Qing has a force value, but his management ability is limited, and he has always relied on Xu Liang, so he doesn't pay much attention to the disharmony in the cottage. For Song Qing, as long as there is a battle to fight.

Xu Liang is the leader of those real mountain bandits. This guy's mind is very sinister, although he doesn't like the practices of the other part of the people, but he deliberately suppresses the real bandits, as if he is supporting the actions of the other group, in fact, he uses that part as cannon fodder.

There are two people in the border people, one is called Xiao Hu and the other is Song Peng. The two men also used to be border soldiers, but for some reason they retired from the border army and returned to the village. This time the barbarians invaded, their villages were plundered, desperately resisted, and lost a lot of manpower, they could only helplessly choose to temporarily avoid the barbarians' edge, and hide in the dark to deal with the barbarians.

Later, they were forced by the barbarians to have no choice, so they joined Longkou Village. However, after entering Longkou Village, they always adhered to a basic principle, that is, they only attacked the barbarians, and never dared to target their own people.

Naturally, this part of the border people, led by Xiao Hu and Song Peng, became the guys Xu Liang wanted to deal with quickly. It's just that Xu Liang is very treacherous, he doesn't put this kind of thing on the surface, but every time he arranges a task, he will hand over the most dangerous ones to Xiao Hu, Song Peng and others.

Naturally, in this case, the losses of this part of the border people are much more serious than those of other mountain bandits.

The situation in Longkou Village is naturally impossible to escape the eyes and ears of the hidden guards.

Therefore, this time Mark went to Longkou Village, and he did not intend to fight hard, but planned to start from within them. The hidden guard who infiltrated the cottage had already secretly made contact with Song Peng and the others.

"Brother Xiao, this matter, now we must make up our minds! If we don't make a decision, sooner or later we will be killed by the surnamed Xu! "It's Song Peng who speaks, this Song Peng is actually a little related to Song Qing, the big leader of the cottage, but it's far away, and Song Peng also looks down on Song Qing a little. Therefore, there are some things that he is still willing to discuss with Xiao Hu, after all, the two have a common experience.

"Let me think again!" Xiao Hu still hadn't been able to answer right away, and he was still thinking about it. The current situation, of course, Xiao Hu is very clear. It's just that he is not very familiar with the people who are secretly in contact with him, so he is still a little skeptical of the suggestions made by the other party.

"Brother Xiao, we don't have time! Don't forget, the surname Xu requires us to take Yazikou within three days, otherwise we will have to deal with it according to the rules, isn't this obviously to clean up our brothers? ”

Yazikou is a small cottage that is not very large, although the scale of this cottage is not large, but it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, if five or six hundred people really died, then Xiao Hu and Song Peng's subordinates would almost be finished.

In fact, there is no need to fight Yazikou at all, because the scale of Yazikou is not large, and the resources in it are also very limited, which is a bit chicken. Therefore, Xu Liang's order was obviously aimed at consuming the strength of the two of them.

"If we're gone, our family will be doomed! You have to think about your mother and your son! Seeing that Xiao Hu was still hesitating, Song Peng was a little anxious, this Xiao Hu was good at everything, but he had too many worries when he really encountered things.

The old lady and son are really Xiao Hu's weakness.

"Okay, it's done-Brother Song, this matter will be handed over to you, what do you say, brother, I will fully cooperate!" Xiao Hu finally made up his mind.